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Surprise. In Arkansas City, Kans., Realtor R. D. Anderson found that one of his vacant houses had been repainted, repapered, given new plumbing and a new roof by a buyer who had gone to the wrong address...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Aug. 24, 1942 | 8/24/1942 | See Source »

Married. Tommy Gibbons, 51, oldtime heavyweight who in 1923 fought 15 famous rounds with Jack Dempsey at Shelby, Mont., now sheriff of Ramsey County (St. Paul), Minn.; and Mrs. Josephine Black, realtor's widow; both for the second time; in Chippewa Falls...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Feb. 24, 1941 | 2/24/1941 | See Source »

...John Archibald MacCallum, a liberal Presbyterian pastor and oldtime friend of Founder Conwell. Soon ex-Trustee MacCallum began to make charges. For no obvious reason, eminent Surgeon W. Wayne Babcock of the medical school jumped into the fray with countercharges. Their cat-&-dog fight was joined by Dean Parkinson, Realtor-Trustee Albert Monroe Greenfield, perennial storm centre of Philadelphia business, banking and politics. Like other ventures in which Businessman-Politico Greenfield is involved, the Temple din took on the vague outlines of a real-estate war. On one side were Budd, Trigg, MacCallum and Greenfield, on the other, Babcock, Parkinson...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Money-Changers at Temple | 12/2/1940 | See Source »

Frank Slicker Moran is a hearty, massive, melodious-voiced realestate broker who auctions whole villages-the little towns of western Pennsylvania that have been left to wither by the bankrupt or transient industries that built them. A former International League baseball umpire, Realtor Moran got his idea nine years ago while recuperating from an internal hemorrhage. "I think," says he, "that I've sold more towns than anybody else in the U. S." Last week he sold his eighth: Pattontown, Pa., a scraggly Westmoreland County hamlet of seven farms, 28 houses, a mercantile building...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: REAL ESTATE: Towns for Sale | 11/11/1940 | See Source »

Down into his fabulous cashless pocket dug the brown hand of shrewd Negro Cultist Major J. ("Father") Divine, and bought a new "heaven": the $500,000, 21-room Tudor mansion once the property of Manhattan Realtor Leo S. Bing, in wealthy Tarrytown, N. Y. Assessed at $169,000, last sold for $27,000, Divine got it for $36,000, will enjoy as one of his nearest neighbors the Duchesse de Talleyrand, formerly Anna Gould, who was reported "pretty angry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Oct. 28, 1940 | 10/28/1940 | See Source »

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